November 2011
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July 2011
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I am filled with an ineffable sense of joy. Thank you, Internet.
(link copped from the wefail twitter feed)
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June 2011
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I occasionally write and record some music with my very talented friends. Here are four inconsequential songs about absolutely nothing in particular.
Our little family has a facebook page, and a tiny label as well. Maybe you’d like to visit either or even both after taking a listen or two?
<a href=”http://adah.bandcamp.com/album/the-convalescent”...
February 2011
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November 2010
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“They’re the chronically depressed, the determinedly addictive, the compulsively...”
– Clinical Psychologist Jonathan Kellerman on patients with borderline personality disorder.
Kring, A.M., Davison, G.C., Neale, & J.M., Johnson, S.L., (Eds.). (2007). Abnormal Psychology. United States of America: John Wiley & Sons.
(via lavieenwords)
The Art of Fiction No. 40 - Vladimir Nabokov: "My... →
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from the Paris Review interview archives:
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[…]A third critic has said that you “diminish” your characters “to the point where they become ciphers in a cosmic farce.” I disagree; Humbert, while comic, retains a touching and insistent quality—that of the spoiled artist.
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I would put it differently: Humbert Humbert is a vain and cruel wretch who manages to...
October 2010
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September 2010
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The implication is admittedly fatalist.
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera writes:
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
In The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien writes:
Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.
In The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard, our eponymous author writes:
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of...
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So, you know. Texas can be pretty awesome... →
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August 2010
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July 2010
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Soccer ball masquerading as a guard allows two to... →
More evidence, I suppose, that the Jabulani ball is powered by the souls of orphaned children.
But seriously: this is kind of magical, in a Kafka-esque kind of way.
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William Faulkner Goes Online, 50 Years Later →
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Love me some Faulkner.
From NPR:
In the late 1950s, English students at the University of Virginia got the opportunity that most American literature scholars would kill for — to speak with William Faulkner.
Faulkner spent two years as the writer-in-residence at UVA, where he gave lectures and readings and took questions from students. The lectures were recorded on reel-to-reel...
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June 2010
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Nerdshares: Atlas Shagged →
So Sady and Amanda discussed the upcoming film adaptation of Atlas Shrugged at Tiger Beatdown, with hilarious and sexy results. It inspired me to think of and comment on how best Atlas Shrugged, that tribute to the strength and autonomy of the individual (man…and his penis), could be…
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May 2010
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